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Minors

Broaden Your Expertise and Explore

Explore your interests, acquire new professional skills, and gain a competitive edge on job and graduate school applications with an undergraduate minor. Offered throughout the university, minors enable you to develop an interdisciplinary outlook and tailor your education according to your needs and interests.

Below is a list of minors that are currently available and those in development.

Minors in Development

Creative Technologies for Performative Practice

Digital Humanities

Dramatic Arts

Film Production

Screenwriting

Urban Studies

Guidelines

Minors are available to undergraduate students across The New School except those students at Lang and the Bachelors Program for Adults and Transfer Students who are completing a self-designed BA or BS in Liberal Arts, who are not permitted to declare minors. For students at Lang or the Bachelors Program for Adults and Transfer Students interested in pursuing a deeper study of these subject areas, opportunities are available through the self-designed major in Liberal Arts. To explore this, contact an academic advisor or read more information about self-designed options for Lang or the Bachelors Program for Adults and Transfer Students.

Students must first declare a major before declaring a minor.

Students can declare up to two minors.

Students are encouraged to successfully complete two courses required by the minor before formally declaring a minor.

Students must earn the required minimum grades to apply courses toward a minor (grade requirements and other policies are set by the minor's divisional home).

Students can retroactively apply successfully completed courses toward a minor up until the time their degree is conferred.

Students are not permitted to take majors and minors that are too similar for students to declare both. See the list of majors that preclude minors below.

Preclusions

Minor

Open to all students except those majoring in…

Anthropology

Anthropology (BA)

Communication Design

Communication Design (BFA), Graphic Design (AAS)

Contemporary Music

Jazz (BFA), Contemporary Music (BA), and Mannes (BM)

Creative Entrepreneurship

Strategic Design and Management (BBA)

Culture and Media

Culture and Media (BA)

Dance

The Arts major with a concentration in Dance (BA)

Economics

Economics B(A)

Environmental Studies

Environmental Studies (BA, BS)

Fashion Communication

Fashion Design BFA, Fashion Design (AAS)

Fine Arts

Fine Arts (BFA)

Food Studies

Food Studies (BA, BS)

Global Studies

Global Studies (BA, BS)

History

History (BA)

Interdisciplinary Science

Interdisciplinary Science (BA)

Jewish Studies

Religious Studies (BA)

Journalism + Design

Journalism + Design (BA)

Literature

Literary Studies major with a concentration in Literature (BA)

Philosophy

Philosophy (BA)

Photography

Photography (BFA)

Politics

Politics (BA)

Psychology

Psychology (BA)

Religious Studies

Religious Studies (BA)

Sociology

Sociology (BA)

Sustainable Cities

Urban Studies (BS)

Theater

Drama (BFA), Theater (BA)

Urban Studies

Urban Studies (BA)

Visual Studies

The Arts major with a concentration in Visual Studies (BA)

Writing

Literary Studies major with a concentration in Writing (BA)

Declare or Apply to a Minor

For some minors, eligibility may be restricted on the basis of area of study, because of constraints on facilities, or by the need for a specific level of skill in a particular field; in such cases, an application is required (as indicated in "Available Minors" listing above). For these minors, complete the application form at my.newschool.edu.